Data from Chronic Bile Duct Injury Associated with Fibrotic Matrix Microenvironment Provokes Cholangiocarcinoma in p53-Deficient Mice
Year: 2023
Type: other
Abstract: Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a lethal malignancy of the biliary epithelium associated with p53 mutations, bile duct injury, inflammation, and fibrosis. Here, to validate these processes in CCA, we developed a liver cirrhosis model driven by chronic intermittent toxin exposure, which provokes bile duct injury/necrosis and proliferation, fibroblast recruitment, and progressive extracellular matrix (ECM) changes. Fibrotic changes in the matrix microenvironment, typified by increased type I and III collagens and fibroblast recruitment, were shown to stimulate biliary epithelium hyperplasia with subsequent progression to malignant intrahepatic CCA only in mice harboring a p53 mutant allele. These murine CCAs bear histologic and genetic features of human intrahepatic CCA, including dense peritumoral fibrosis, increased inducible nitric oxide synthase, nitrotyrosine, and cyclooxygenase-2 expression, c-Met activation, cErbB2 overexpression, down-regulation of membrane-associated E-cadherin, and p53 codon 248 mutation. Thus, p53 deficiency, chronic bile duct injury/proliferation, and the fibrotic matrix microenvironment cooperate to induce intrahepatic CCA, highlighting the key role of the ECM microenvironment in this common liver cancer. (Cancer Res 2006; 66(13): 6622-7) (Cancer Res 2006; 66(13): 6622-7)
Authors: Paraskevi A. Farazi, Michael Zeisberg, Jonathan Glickman, Yan Zhang, Raghu Kalluri, Ronald A. DePinho
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4361252873